The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ordered new Light Rail Vehicles for the Green Line Extension. The 24 vehicles will be built by CAR Rail, a Spanish company, at their Elmira, New York plant. The Green Line in Boston is probably one of the toughest legacy systems to design rolling stock for. The AnsaldoBreda leg’ s currently in use are low floor, but since the driver still collects fares, it’s front door only boarding. The driver is in the high floor section.http://www.railwayage.com/inde.....channel=61

The 4 branches of the Green Line are the heaviest patronized light rail system in the country, and the oldest subway line.

Like Kucinich but without the hot wife was my perception, but whatever.

Turns out there are a couple of other candidates you didn’t see in those clips. One is the acting governor.

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter chose not to make a snap judgement, instead, he created a work group to study whether Idaho should create it’s own health insurance exchange, let the federal government create one for the state, or some combination of the two options.

Otter’s 14-member panel decided in October 2012 that Idaho should move forward with creating it’s own exchange. The governor followed suit, and Gov. Otter issued a statement on Dec. 11, 2012 that Idaho should create a state-based exchange.

While everyone is snickering about the Idaho GOP debate video, perhaps take time to reflect on something else that hit the news this week:

Sink declined to run again in the fall despite a concerted recruitment effort, leaving the party to turn to Jany, a former Republican who had to run as an independent because, under Florida law, he hadn’t been registered as a Democrat long enough. In an effort to help Jany, party leaders pressured local NAACP chapter President Manuel Sykes, a Democrat, to drop out of the race, leaving no one on the party line.

3)With only dozens, I doubt that the traffic was that bad, I mean not worse than usual. In fact, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority was reducing service on the Metro for the weekend, track work needing to be performed.http://wmata.com/rider_tools/m.....m?AID=3201

This is not starting out well at all. Something didn’t seem right when I read that only ESPN had cameras in the room when the Sam selection by the Rams was announced, and yet when I saw the now-famous video of The Kiss I noticed that it included the hand of a second video cameraman.

“Conservative blogger Clayton Thomas Kelly was arrested Saturday [for] allegedly trespassing at the nursing home where Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife lives and posting a picture of the Republican’s spouse online without permission. Cochran’s wife, Rose Cochran, suffers from dementia, according to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger … [and] is bedridden.

“Kelly runs a political blog … where he posted a story … attacking Cochran and supporting state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who’s challenging Cochran in the state’s GOP Senate primary this year. The piece included a picture taken bedside in Rose Cochran’s room at the nursing home, where she has lived since 2000.

“… [T]he Madison Police Department said that Kelly … was charged with exploitation of a vulnerable adult, and his bond was set at $100,000. … [T]he Cochrans’ attorney … said …[,] ‘We became aware of an unauthorized picture, posted on the Internet, of Mrs. Cochran, taken literally in her room by her bedside at St. Catherine’s …. We notified the …. Madison Police Department.'”

Roger Rabbit Commentary: While reprehensible behavior by the swill constituting the rightwing blogosphere is hardly unique, invading a nursing home to snap a photo of a political opponent’s bedridden spouse is some kind of new low. He’s lucky the senator wasn’t there with a gun.

Today’s New York Times carries a useful guide to President Obama’s understanding of his own failures in the “Middle East Peace Process.” He blames the Palestinians a tiny bit, the Israelis a great deal, and himself not at all.

Anyone who has been to Israel understand the Palestinian leaders are still saying death to Israel, even in 2014. Their western statements to the press are complete fabrications and abject lies. Palestinians don’t want peace yet Obummer and Effin Kerry attempt to create something out of nothin and blame Netanyahu when it falls apart.

Low information voters (read DUMMOCRETINS) goosestep jackboot march right along not understanding or reading anything outside of the left wrong lamestream media or their stoooopid blogs. And they cheer Obummer not thoroughly understanding or just ignoring the real the issues. The NY Slimes displays it’s left wrong position and cheers Obummer too.

Yet this leftist idiot loved by Da Perfessa never gives any real evidence other than wanting to stop abortions?. And it’s so sad Da Perfessa demonstrates his true Christian hating colors by linking to this hateful jackASS! Thom equating the GOP wanting to stop the killing of unborn babies in America to the potential killing or selling into slavery 200+ girls by extremists who think like HA DUMMOCRETINS. Both boko haram and HA DUMMOCRETINS hate Christians. Those 200+ Christian girls did nothing wrong. Yet here is real evidence of boko haram and their real Christian hatred: http://cnsnews.com/news/articl.....ter-church

Yet Obummer and Clinton would not name boko haram a terrorist organization. So Puddy asks you both…

Religious scholars working under the world’s largest bloc of Islamic countries on Thursday denounced the mass kidnappings of Nigerian girls by an extremist group claiming to be fighting for Islam.

Thom/Da Perfessa: Did the GOP attack 500 Christian churches between 2009-2011 during Obummer’s first term?

Thom/Da Perfessa Did the GOP kill over 200 Christians between 2009-2011 during Obummer’s first term? Sounds like something straight out of a DUMMOCRETIN playbook! DUMMOCRETINS hate Christians.

Thom/Da Perfessa: Did the GOP unleash a Christmas Day terrorist attack a Christian church, killing over forty people mostly by slitting their throats?

Thom/Da Perfessa: In 2012 did the GOP attack Christian churches on a sunny Easter Sunday killing at least thirty-six people?

We all know why Obummer and Clinton would not label boko haram a terrorist organization in 2012 on the African continent… It was for ideological DUMMOCRETIN power keeping reasons that’s why! Obummer was gearing up for his 2012 campaign and Clinton was complicit in this act! Hillary’s State Department refused to identify the boko haram as muslim terrorists. If the SoS identified them as terrorists this meant acknowledging Islamic terrorism. Can’t have that because Obummer claimed in 2012 Al Qaeda was on the run for his campaign. Al Qaeda was almost totally decimated per 2012 DUMMOCRETIN sadministration mouthpieces.

To claim boko haram was a terrorist group operating in west central Africa meant giving up the silly mantra that muslim terrorism was defeated. It didn’t mesh with the 2012 public campaign perception lie which was blown apart by Benghazi 9/11/2012 on the same African continent!

Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram – which has caused havoc in Africa’s most populous country through a wave of bombings, assassinations and now abductions – is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.

Thom/DA Perfessa Did the GOP murder forty adult students attending a Nigerian training college last September?

Thom/Da Perfessa: Did the GOP murder fifty-nine defenseless young boys while they slept in their beds, and then burned their school to the ground this past February 2014?

Mr. Maher went on to argue that liberals who chalk the incidences up to small groups of radical “bad apples” are not standing up for liberal principles, a major part of which is equality for women.

Puddy is sad Maher didn’t claim this when the 59 boys were murdered back in February. Apparently gender equality isn’t high on Maher’s list. There were 59 grieving parents of those boys. Puddy is amazed Maher went out on a limb here for the girls! Why? DUMMOCRETINS think talking to someone will somehow change their attitudes. Butt, it only happens when the GOP condemned boko haram first. Looks like Maher did learn some thing at Cornell!

Thom/Da Perfessa: Did the GOP create a useless hashtag thinking boko haram uses Twitter when their name means “Western education is forbidden”?

You mean the woman’s right to murder a child? After all, if a man caused the woman to lose her unborn baby he would be labeled a baby killer. The hypocrisy on this issue is mind blowing. Where is the babies right to choose? This is nothing but politically motivated.﻿

Klownservatives are always complaining that other countries laugh at the U.S.

They wonder why..

Forty-three other states had already laid claim to various dinosaurs, trilobites, primitive whales and even petrified wood. It seemed like a no-brainer. “Fossils tell us about our past,” the Grade 2 student wrote.

And, as it turns out, the present, too. The bill that Olivia inspired has become the subject of considerable angst at the legislature in the state capital of Columbia. First, an objecting state senator attached three verses from Genesis to the act, outlining God’s creation of all living creatures. Then, after other lawmakers spiked the amendment as out of order for its introduction of the divinity, he took another crack, specifying that the Columbian mammoth “was created on the sixth day with the other beasts of the field.” That version passed in the senate in early April. But now the bill is back in committee as the lower house squabbles over the new language, and it’s seemingly destined for the same fate as its honouree—extinction.

What has doomed Olivia’s dream is a raging battle in South Carolina over the teaching of evolution in schools.

Speaking of dumb. 58 percent of people in the State of Georgia lack a college degree… One of their own is taking a shot at a U.S. Senate seat:

“If we don’t win in November—or we win with another go-along-to-get-along, or an elitist establishment type—we haven’t accomplished a thing,” said Handel. “Who’s gonna take it to Michelle Nunn, y’all? We know we need to cut the spending. We know we need to get the economy going by cutting taxes and cutting regulation.”

Trouble is, that’s not all the GOP does to women, which helps explain why the GOP has is losing the female vote.

Also, I think some people are still struggling with the GOP’s concept that a lump of a few cells is a “baby.” Yes, abortion becomes (at least arguably) morally problematical after those cells have morphed into a fetus, but the GOP doesn’t even try to make a distinction. Nor does the GOP make any effort to offer desperate women an alternative to abortion.

After four years of allowing an erroneous biographical entry on congress.gov tout a four-year B.A. degree when he only earned a two-year A.A., Reichert’s entry is miraculously updated, but only after being publicly scolded for his resume padding.

@39 What should the penalty be for murdering a fingernail-sized cell mass? If having a cell mass removed from your body is criminalized, is the crime greater, and should the penalty be greater, if the cell mass, left unmolested, would grow into a fetus instead of a wart?

What thinking people realize, and unthinking people don’t want to deal with, is the very difficult problem of drawing a line between a future human being (FHB)* and an actual human being (AHB).* In Roe v. Wade, the SCOTUS justices wrestled with this question and admitted no one (including them) could come up with a definitive answer.

Because courts are in the business of deciding disputes, SCOTUS opted for arbitrarily dividing the 9-month human gestation period into three 3-month “terms,” and in Roe v. Wade and subsequent cases implied that the law’s approach to the issue could vary depending on which term the FHB has advanced to. This is a pragmatic compromise answer to a question that does not lend itself to logical rationalization.

The reality is that every citizen has his/her own answer, according to his/her political or religious ideology, moral precepts, practical considerations, or whatever governs people’s thinking. Consequently, there is an absence of agreement on societal mores on the question:

1. Some people think using a condom or other method of birth control is murder, and want to criminalize use of birth control (and send police to break into people’s bedrooms to catch them in the act of using birth control).

2. Some people who are okay with taking steps before intercourse to prevent fertilization think taking a pill after intercourse to prevent the egg from implanting itself in the wall of the uterus is murder, and want to criminalize the sale and/or use of such pills.

3. Some people think miscarriage by any cause, natural or human-induced, is murder and would punish any woman who has a miscarriage for any reason.

4. Some people think aborting healthy fetuses is murder, but would not place legal restrictions on aborting nonviable fetuses, profoundly defective fetuses, or fetuses that threaten the life of the host (i.e., mother).

5. Some people think the law should not protect healthy fetuses if they resulted from rape or incest.

6. Some people think a FHB doesn’t become an AHB until it pops out of the womb and breathes free air, but would go along with the law protecting 3rd term (or late 3rd term) fetuses.

7. Some people think a FHB doesn’t become an AHB until it pops out of the womb and breathes free air, but would criminalize as “murder” the death of a non-human cell mass brought about by the intentional or negligent infliction of physical harm on the host (i.e. mother) by a third party. By way of illustration, if a drunk driver kills a pregnant woman, he’s guilty of two vehicular homicides, not one.

8. Some people think any demise of a FHB they deem “murder” justifies the murder of any AHB they deem responsible for the FHB’s demise (e.g., killing the abortion doctor, his nurse, the abortion clinic’s receptionist, the children sleeping in the house next door to the abortion clinic that catches fire and burns down from the bomb that blew up the abortion clinic, etc.).

With such a variety of definitions and social mores floating around, the only firm conclusion you can make is that people don’t agree on this; and anyone with half a brain can readily see that a Republican Party that has accrued votes, campaign donations, and loyal followers from the abortion controversy for almost 45 years has absolutely no interest in actually resolving the issue, because if the issue gets resolved, all of that goes away. In other words, if all abortion came to a screeching halt in the U.S., that would be one of the worst things that could happen to the GOP because they wouldn’t be able to milk that issue anymore. Which explains why, for almost 45 years, the GOP has done little more than pay lip service and chip around the edges of abortion.

@39 As long as we’re talking about baby killers, how many babies were killed by the GOP’s recreational war in Iraq? Oh wait, foreigners’ babies don’t count, even in their own villages and homes. Anything outside U.S. territory is a free-fire zone.

@50 Well, when you have a former Harvard dean saying Burner had a “degree in economics from Harvard,” some people consider that definitive while others continue insisting the world is 6,000 years old, there’s no climate change, Obama was born in Kenya, and the federal government has no jurisdiction over federal land situated in Nevada.

A long overdue common sense article on the glibertarians or losertarians:

During the meeting, a Ron Paul staffer, a smart and charismatic young woman, gave a tip to the group [paultards] for the upcoming convention.

“Dress normal,” she said. “Wear suits, and don’t bring signs or flags. Don’t talk about conspiracy theories. Just fit in.” Her advice was the kind you might hear given to an insane uncle at Thanksgiving.

Then next day, I ran into that same operative at the convention, and I complimented her because Ron Paul delegates were being accepted into the crowd. I added, “We‘re going to win this thing.”

“Bring in the clowns,” she said, and smiled before I lost her in the mass of people.

And boy, was it a circus. Many members of the group were obsessed with the gold standard, the Kennedy assassination and the Fed. Although Libertarians believe government is incompetent, many of them subscribe to the most fringe conspiracy theories imaginable. Airplanes are poisoning America with chemicals (chemtrails) or the moon landings were faked. Nothing was too far out. A great many of them really think that 9-11 was an inside job

and

Yet I don’t want to gloss over the good things about libertarians. They are generally supportive of the gay community, completely behind marijuana legalization and are often against ill-considered foreign wars, but a few good ideas don’t make up for some spectacularly bad ones. Their saving grace is a complete lack of organizational ability

We’ve had many glibertarians comment here in the threads. Some ok, some not ok.. Many liberals and leftists, myself included have something of a libertarian streak. Geov Parrish comes to mind..

Finally…

If you think that selfishness and cruelty are fantastic personal traits, you might be a libertarian. In the movement no one will ever call you an asshole, but rather, say you believe in radical individualism.

There are approx than 100,000 children in the United States are in foster care waiting for permanent families, children legally free for adoption. We adopted our child through foster care. I find it hypocritical that people who are against abortion and birth control, yet have not stepped up to the plate, put their money where their mouth is and done their level best to adopt every legally free kid. There are more ads for pet adoption then there are for adoption of actual humans. Assholes.

California Chrome won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness with the help of nasal strips, which improve breathing and help prevent respiratory injuries, but New York’s horseracing commission — the governing body in the state where the Belmont track is located — bans them. His trainer told CNN he might keep the triple crown contender out of the Belmont Stakes if he’s not allowed to use them.

Roger Rabbit Commentary: I’ve never heard of nasal strips for racehorses before. Does it give them an advantage over horses that don’t use them? Sort of a horseracing equivalent of steriods? Is it considered cheating? Does their use taint a horse’s track victories? Do any other jurisdictions ban them? I don’t know.

@57 – it isn’t so much as that they were foreign, its more so because they already have left the womb…..after leaving the womb it is a free for all, and you even get to live without laws if your religious beliefs say that you can. The bible is the new Constitution.

SWISS Voters have rejected what would have been the World’s highest. They also rejected the use of the defence budget to fund the purchase of Saab Grippen fighter jets from Sweden.http://www.thelocal.ch/2014051.....r-jet-deal

Meant World’s highest minimum wage was rejected by Swiss Voters. Although it was a landslide for the no vote, the backers did mention that businesses were raising wages anyway in the past couple months, while fighting the initiative.http://www.thelocal.ch/2014051.....nimum-wage

Yeah, but I’m not hypocritical about it. I posted years ago, and numerous times since, that I’m a human pretending to be a rabbit. I’ve also admitted many times that I’m a Democratic party hack and liberal propagandist.

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